I never liked the inclusion of Jennika. It doesn't matter how much you tried to push her as part of the team, she did not fit. Maybe you would have had something if she was just a mutant turtle that was an ally but that "5th turtle older sister" thing was not it. I sincerely hope we never see her character again in any other media. Venus De Milo is a different case though. Again, not advocating for a 5th turtle but as a supporting character like April or Casey sure.
Yeah, the inclusion of Venus in IDW didn't seem nearly as egregious as Jennika. It could be because she wasn't technically a real turtle or because she wasn't pushed as the main character. Either way, Venus was handled a lot better.
@@Tatoruzu I was talking about the live action show reintroducing her in a different series in a more tolerable way because I think she could actually work as supporting character. And the live action was kind of a bad start that killed her chances. Wasn't really a fan of the Frankenstein turtle origin either.
You know the funniest thing I remember a TMNT "fan" who said most of if not all of the 2012 TMNT designs suck and showed images of 2012 april,casey, april's dad and Irma yet said person says Mutant Mayhem april looks beautiful and is one of those people who think Rise of TMNT has the best version of donnie and april(I feel like getting hospitalized by leatherhead or shredder after hearing/remembering that) the thing is 2012 is the version of TMNT I grew up and most of the designs(well human designs) are okay and good even if we're talking mutants, villains and the turtles my God when are people gonna stop glazing rise and realize there's nothing special about it
@@badconnection4383Rise dies not suck. True, it is not perfect, but if you actually keep an open mind and pay attention, you would see that it is a very good action cartoon was a lot more substance than initially believed!
I didn't hate the book but the fact that nothing paid off was annoying and it didn't seem to wanna write a tmnt book, if i could of gotten a mainline book with its version being a side story it might still have a job. I think mutant town was the biggest waste of potential I've ever seen in comics. And yes im was calling ross it.
Jenika doesn't exist there was a gas leak in the swears that had the whole ross time line is in Raphaels fever dream/nightmare thats why he was lost with no memory There i fixed it. You're welcome
Or just don't even explain it. Just have an editor's not that issues #XX-XX aren't canon. Peter Laird just completely ignored the Image Comics TMNT Volume 3 when he started TMNT Volume 4. No time travel timeline altering BS to canonically erase it. He just ignored it and moved on. That's what IDW should do.
Campbell has unique art but fuck me, can progressive writers STOP using Black people as allegories depicted as monsters and weird shit? Their ironically being racist as shit because even if they're all like 'They have rights!!1!1' yadda yadda, it's still showcasing a real group of people as weirdos. It was better when anyone could be a mutant and whether they retained their humanity or abused their power was a point. Making all mutants 'victims' and ignoring humans' very natural fight or flight senses when they come across something they've never seen before is such a fucking annoying trope.
As a black person, I could not agree with you more. Western progressives are just bigots with subtlety. They promote more division and ruin normalcy, especially in media, with their actions.
Oh I wouldn’t say Jason Aaron is anything better than the previous TMNT writer. When you look at Aaron’s track record at marvel, then you might want to start hoping for a short run.
@@Lawnrail i hope not but i saved the video just in case cuz i hate it when creators like them flag a video that "critizes there art" for no good reason
And what's this stupid shit about TMNT constantly wearing clothes now? There is literally no reason to blend in now since everyone is a mutant. I also cannot stand all these extra mutant turtles now. It makes the TMNT far less unique and pretty much goes against what Peter and Kevin originally intended.
....Are you the same Courtland Brugger who went by the username Ninja-Turtles on DeviantArt and did a bunch of fanart from the early 2000's to late 2010's? If you are, I followed your work back then!
Sophie Campbell is just an unsuitable writer for TMNT. Sophie tends to write slice of life material that revolves around cotton candy and ice cream. She's better off writing for Jem and the Holograms and maybe current She-Ra but TMNT? Absolutely fucking not.
Efectivamente, llevas razon. El solo puede hacer cómics de temática emo lgtbi pero jamás (de nuevo) tmnt. Qué clase de enchufe debería tener en idw para que le dejasen hacer esa masacre con tmnt? Puta basura. Descansa al fin.
The only thing Sophie/Ross was suited for was character design (LOVE his Alopex and Sally Pride redesigns. Santolouco made Alopex look like a werewolf instead of a fox, and Sally's a LION. Her build is supposed to be huge and jacked, like Ross drew her). When he started writing as well as doing art, you'll notice the turtles took on the mannerisms of low-confidence GIRLS instead of the boisterous, high testosterone males they are. Especially Michelangelo and post-Kitsune Leonardo.: Looking down with the hand on the back of the neck, or doing that stereotype "insecure girl pose" of looking down/away with one hand gripping the middle of the opposite arm...males simply don't DO that. Those poses radiate weakness and vulnerability IN WOMEN and it's not even instinctive for men to have that body language...unless they're men trying to pass as women.
Jason Aaron, I have mixed feelings over. He's the reason Frank Castle's The Punisher is no longer part of the Marvel Universe because his wife was resurrected by "The Hand" Ninja Clan and took all his money and divorced him which forced him to go to "Weird-World" (I can't make this shit up) It was the highest form of character assassination all because the wokie's hated that Cops were using his Logo. And also, very hypocritical. Because if Marvel didn't like the Punisher, they'd stop selling his merchandise.
Thank you for suffering so that we don't have to. I heard that run after 100 were bad, but I didn't think it was that bad. Evil truly cannot create, only destroy
After finding out the story about the person who made jenneka a turtle I immediately dropped off of TMNT. And it's a good thing I did, that story would have pissed me off. Playing into what he wanted. May jump back in with the relaunch. But the moment anyone starts in their self inserts or agenda I'm out again
You know when I heard Razorfist go off about how only the first 100 issues of IDW's TMNT are worth reading and everything after that was just mary-sue trash, I never realized the extent of how bad it was, even when he went off during his Red Dead Revolver stream about the battle of the bands/lesbian mutant pig plot were utter garbage, I STILL didn't fully comprehend.
I dont mind the mutant town. I think it would be cool to have the turtles live in a city of monsters like them. It could be like hellboy. The clothes and them planting of flowers or the shipping also dont bother me because the turtles have always been absurdist. I think these subjects could have been handled better if the writer didnt put his political views on the story.
Some months back I was wanting to run a TMNT rpg and loved the idea of using mutant town. I started reading up on it and i couldn’t make it through it. Watching your video makes me glad i didn’t waste more time on it.
@@Tatoruzu definitely plan to do that. I was just looking for an excuse to explain mutant characters and back ups if there is a death. Learned about mutant town and figured I’d look into that first for mining ideas.
😂 Now everything make so much sense. As i started reading it from issue 127 onwards 😅. Hopefully Jason Aaron's run will do them turtles and us fans more justice
I blame Ross much less than I blame IDW. Anyone who thought he'd be anything less than a trash fanfic writer is foolish. And that it was after such a long term run with son many plot points being juggled... who thought ross would be up to this??
@Tatoruzu buy as a writer? I think campbells art at its best is pretty excellent, but that doesn't translate to making him writer of such a well recieved series
@@prehistoricturtlesaurus5309 Yeah, there really is no excuse for that. I guess being both an artist and a writer has advantages (and it's cheaper for IDW), but they should've cut his writing stint short after realizing he wasn't cut out for it.
@Tatoruzu I can see that to a degree, being covid tines and whatnot. But yeah, holy shit did they lose a lot of readers. Honestly I wish I'd stopped buying, but I'm a diehard... joke was on me. If the relaunch sucks I'm quitting. There's too many fun tmnt comics from the past to waste time on more furry fan fiction.
It's funny how progressive writers say, "We support queer people!" But when they write "gay" characters, it's always a lesbian this, lesbian that. Barely any gay dudes. Even if they write a gay dude, they make them way too stereotypical or forgettable by being a blank/support character for the lesbian. Worst part, they even try to gaslighting, justify, and normalize the toxic/abusive relationships lesbian couples have. Also, their general writing style is basically turning everything into a "Slice of life" just to slowly turn it into a political thing. They can't even properly write a Slice of Life story. Since they butcher by normalizing toxic and dirty environments as "good" and "ego friendly," Like... how does living like trash be good or eco-friendly? They don't even want to write proper struggle neither, everything has to be perfect. And don't get me started with their self-insert/OC being put into popular media. And the extreme projections they have.
#150 Ending is really a dumpster fire. The turtles are even less likeable than before. I mean seriously? The others stopped trying to save Donnie and everyone went on vacation? Why cann't we have a scene like about Leo trying to find Donnie throught his astral skill, and April and Mikey also try to help Leo by combining their magic powers or something! Not even four brothers actually involved this story. Except for Evil Bob, this is actually about Mary Sue Venus saving everything. I'm really tired of that the writers always have the turtles forced into a vicious cycle of "quarrel, separation, and reunion" because the plot-first writing. The turtles actually have no real character development.
Just do what I do and stick to reading about Karan/the Foot Clan P.S. have the turtles EVER had any development?? They’ve always just been Leader, Angry, Smart and Funny
I dropped IDW altogether after #116. My patience was pushed beyond what I was capable of. NOTHING they could do would ever win back the goodwill they'd lost with me. I don't care if Campbell is permanently booted off the book, I am never picking it back up again
Campbell was never good and she ruined the IDW TMNT comic big time and made it her gay sjw fanfiction and i don't know what jason will do to it not sure if he will get rid and fix what cambell did like kill off jennika and that gay pig too but sadly she ain't gone from IDW yet as she is making one upcoming TMNT comic called Mutant Nation
This writer was such trash. Everyone has to put in some angry chick, and make her gay. The sad thing was that there was another character named Lita who was much better. She was a younger mutant turtle with strange mystical powers. Instead of trying to force her to be an equal among four lifelong brothers, she was pretty much their new little sister they wanted to help and protect. Seriously, the answer was right there.
i hope that campbell doesn't find out about this video cuz creators like them are always butthurt when they see videos like this save the video if you can so that way if it getts taken down its doesnt get removed forever
I mean he did call them a fucking “transformer” and “man in disguise” so that’s kinda on him. Even if the writing is shit, that’s a bit much and in bad faith.
It's not "bad faith" to call a spade a spade. I'm supposed to ignore the reality of XY chromosomes and willingly play along with a middle aged man's delusions?
Yes the art is good but the writing goes all over the place, like her other series, 'Wet Moon' just ended anticlimactically. Really lame. With forcing a straight character to suddenly be lesbian.
Whoever decided to take a story about anthropomorphic ninja turtles raised by a giant rat and make it about gay issues should be BLACKLISTED from ever working on an IP that doesn't fit her niche worldview.
If you look back at his first comic and deviantart / livejournal stuff, you see that it always has been. (the TMNT allowed him to do furries but it was goth-queer-fetish stuff before that the whole time.)
"who would hire Ross after he massacred such a massive, beloved series like this?" Marvel. That's who. Or DC. They both will probably have a bidding war over the dude's garbage services. Trust me, in comics, these people fall upwards.
idk I thought she had some neat concepts and I hope the new characters that were introduced get integrated into the mainline canon somehow like how Harley Quinn when she was introduced in the batman cartoon. They have probably the coolest character designs aside from the turtles themselves.
@Tatoruzu many thanks, the general consensus i see is stop at issue 100 and skip ahead to issue 150. It seems like those 50 issues are basically filler
I disagree with you on two things. Armageddon Game wasn’t good at all. It was way too long and nothing happened for the first 18 issues/tie ins. Krang died after an awesome build up that went nowhere. Very typical of Tom Waltz. Also the last 10 issues of idw tmnt volume sucked as well. There was only one storyline that I liked since 100. The punk frogs/dr Barlow story. I like Barlow, I thought the creepy story was nice and from what I’ve seen I think Campbell had someone help or ghost write the comics after awhile. Things kind of changed at some point and the writing didn’t feel the same. I’d have to go back and reread them to see when they changed but after the past 4 years it’s gonna be some time before I go back and reread this crap.
I haven't been following any TMNT comics. I've only known about the TV shows and movies. I've heard there are some good comic stories about TMNT. I've heard something going on with the recent IDW TMNT comics and wasn't sure what it was. Now I fully understand why.
Also can't help but wonder if Jennika was a self-insert, and therefore Jennika is trans. She already 'tranned' into a turtle from a human. He was a terrible writer, and I'm glad he's done. This permanetly makes Jennika a unlikeable character...forcing her in without any kind of classic name like 'Venus de Milo' was bad enough as it is. Why was Jennika okay but Venus wasn't? EDIT: I don't know if any of this was mentioned in the video, I only had time to watch 5 minutes of it before going to work, so I added it to my 'Watch Later'.
Watching this video, I kept thinking of ALL the ways to do what Sophie is (not) TRYING to do, but with competancy. However, it doesn’t matter what I think, because to Sophie, her mission is to ruin the childhoods of other. Sophie is an example of an Anti-fan given control of something that she clearly doesn’t like. Her fan comic wasn’t made to respect TMNT and neither was making Jenna a turtle, it was made for HER to enjoy. To be blunt, if you feel the need to change TMNT so you can enjoy it more, perhaps consider you DON'T actually like the Turtles that much. Jenna is nothing more than her gender and sexuality, and the allegories are so blatant and poorly done, that it feels like a teenager whose parents "don't understand them" wrote it. Campbell is an ADULT and should act like one, not a highschool bully trying to ruin the fun for their favourite targets
Erm... it's Coldsteel the HedgehEg, not Coldsteel the HedgehOg, get it right. But on a more serious note, I'm glad we're done with Ross's sad excuse of writing.
WOOOaaaw this is the best expose video of 2024 ... look at this... Ross was trying to cover up his mutation into Sophie lol, but thanks to Tatoruzu now we know true (I've come across with Ross Campbell reference but it never occurred me that it's the same person, always thought it is some family member or coincidence... damn such a good job you did thanks)
Seeing Ross say how he wanted to ruin our childhoods while writing for an iconic series aka biting the hand that feeds him and IDW is very unprofessional. If he doesn't want to treat us older TMNT fans respect and professionalism, then he doesn't deserve the respect of being referred to by his bullshit pronouns. Basically treat someone with respect and I'll respect your opinions, identity to a degree as any normal minded person would.
I call at the bi clause. It's the weird scummy lawyer speak to try to get around History of continuity showing a character not being gay. All it is is a wedge because at the end of the day once they go bi, they'll stay the gay option because the gay option is the Diversity box. And the only way they try to argue is either well. Nothing said they weren't bi Which is not an argument. Are the worst one oh they have been in denial for all these years. No. And pointing to the very very few cases in actual reality does not change that
There are plenty of people who do. I'm pretty much the only channel that has a negative view of Jennika, which is why so many people here agree with me - there is no other TMNT channel to vent this feeling.
I love it Sophie did a great job on the whole series I would love to see more of mutant town and I still hope the new writers would let us see the future we saw in #117
Someone who actually worked in IDW quit working for them for a couple of reasons. The first is that they don't pay well at all, second, that all they have as writing is basically Google Fan Fiction and Trans Fantasies. That is how they messed up Transformers, and TMNTs. Now we have this person that delighted in ruining the comics of a franchise, but nothing is worse than one of the original creators allowing these stories to take place, back when he used to hate the 80s cartoon and even the atrocious live action series, the Next Mutation. The only BS I find dumb on this video is the complain of "People of Color", which makes no damned sense to be complaining about. The fact of April being a "Bi-Racial" character stems from the different origins original creators of the TMNTs had for her. One would illustrate April as being half Native American or Black, and the other as a Redhead. That is well documented and people still talk stupid crap about it to this day. In any case, the TMNTs in IDW were reincarnations Japanese kids along their father Hamato Yoshi, so...
Also calling the writer a “transformer” and “man in disguise” is a bit out of pocket. But I’m guessing that when I Star getting the complete volumes that I should stop at 100 and skip the 50 after that then start on the new number 1 if that turn out good.
I agree the 'transformer' stuff was outta pocket as is posting a pic of the person pre-trans in the thumbnail. If anything that might be the main reason Campbell might try to have the video taken down. I also disagree with complaining about the Turtles sulking for half a year after Splinter died. Dude, their father died. Their loving father that raised and fought alongside them for over 100 issues. They can't just ignore that and go back into action the following week. Grieving takes time. Especially since despite all their friends and whatnot, Splinter was their only Day One family. They don't have uncles, grandparents, cousins, not even godparents. Splinter was it. I did stop reading til the Armageddon Game and the post 100 comic sales were so bad, one of my smaller comic shops stopped selling the main line, just the Street Fighter/Power Rangers crossovers. I'm glad that run is over, it bugs me that there people even thought this was the end of the entire run. Thank goodness there's a reboot, soft or otherwise.
@@VideoGameMasters09"I agree the 'transformer' stuff was outta pocket as is posting a pic of the person pre-trans in the thumbnail." He responded to one of my comments where I criticized him for calling Campbelll a "transformer" in bad faith and he proceeded to state this cringe shit... "It's not "bad faith" to call a spade a spade. I'm supposed to ignore the reality of XY chromosomes and willingly play along with a middle aged man's delusions?"
man this writer really can't tell a good turtles story
Thank God a hardcore tmnt channel. Can’t believe I took so long to find you. 💪💪💪
Ross causally going against everything Kevin and Peter made
I never liked the inclusion of Jennika. It doesn't matter how much you tried to push her as part of the team, she did not fit. Maybe you would have had something if she was just a mutant turtle that was an ally but that "5th turtle older sister" thing was not it. I sincerely hope we never see her character again in any other media.
Venus De Milo is a different case though. Again, not advocating for a 5th turtle but as a supporting character like April or Casey sure.
Yeah, the inclusion of Venus in IDW didn't seem nearly as egregious as Jennika. It could be because she wasn't technically a real turtle or because she wasn't pushed as the main character. Either way, Venus was handled a lot better.
@@Tatoruzu I was talking about the live action show reintroducing her in a different series in a more tolerable way because I think she could actually work as supporting character. And the live action was kind of a bad start that killed her chances. Wasn't really a fan of the Frankenstein turtle origin either.
four’s a party, five’s a crowd
You know the funniest thing I remember a TMNT "fan" who said most of if not all of the 2012 TMNT designs suck and showed images of 2012 april,casey, april's dad and Irma yet said person says Mutant Mayhem april looks beautiful and is one of those people who think Rise of TMNT has the best version of donnie and april(I feel like getting hospitalized by leatherhead or shredder after hearing/remembering that) the thing is 2012 is the version of TMNT I grew up and most of the designs(well human designs) are okay and good even if we're talking mutants, villains and the turtles my God when are people gonna stop glazing rise and realize there's nothing special about it
Yeah Rise sucked, even more when people try to explain to me how making Donnie autistic purely because he's smart is good writing.
@badconnection4383 Rise dies not suck. True, it is not perfect, but if you actually keep an open mind and pay attention, you would see that it
@@badconnection4383Rise dies not suck. True, it is not perfect, but if you actually keep an open mind and pay attention, you would see that it is a very good action cartoon was a lot more substance than initially believed!
@@zemox2534 I kept an open mind watching rise, it made me want a lobotomy.
*8:21** I know is a nitpick, But I JUST HATE when people create a 5th Turtle for their fanfiction WHEN CASEY JONES EXISTS & IS RIGHT THERE*
Ong who doesn't love a gigachad like Casey Jones
@@Phantom-Shadow567 apparently the Cowaboomers
@@ArcTrooper269 Fr
And if you must have a girl? April is also right there.
@@Phantom-Shadow567 I certainly like him.
Shredder in a wheelchair😂😂😂
"Krang, I can't make turtle soup now!"
I never liked Jennika
I didn't hate the book but the fact that nothing paid off was annoying and it didn't seem to wanna write a tmnt book, if i could of gotten a mainline book with its version being a side story it might still have a job. I think mutant town was the biggest waste of potential I've ever seen in comics. And yes im was calling ross it.
Jenika doesn't exist there was a gas leak in the swears that had the whole ross time line is in Raphaels fever dream/nightmare thats why he was lost with no memory
There i fixed it. You're welcome
Or just don't even explain it. Just have an editor's not that issues #XX-XX aren't canon. Peter Laird just completely ignored the Image Comics TMNT Volume 3 when he started TMNT Volume 4. No time travel timeline altering BS to canonically erase it. He just ignored it and moved on. That's what IDW should do.
@@KasumiKenshirou IDW is the problem. They are who pushed Ross Campbell to main writer.
I just realized, Jennika X Sheena is just Miss Piggy X Kermit the Frog played straight...
Campbell has unique art but fuck me, can progressive writers STOP using Black people as allegories depicted as monsters and weird shit? Their ironically being racist as shit because even if they're all like 'They have rights!!1!1' yadda yadda, it's still showcasing a real group of people as weirdos.
It was better when anyone could be a mutant and whether they retained their humanity or abused their power was a point. Making all mutants 'victims' and ignoring humans' very natural fight or flight senses when they come across something they've never seen before is such a fucking annoying trope.
Agree
Couldn’t have said it better myself ✅
As a black person, I could not agree with you more. Western progressives are just bigots with subtlety. They promote more division and ruin normalcy, especially in media, with their actions.
Agreed I making a better story and stop making another fifth turtle that need to top"
Well, to be honest, i liked the concept of mutant town. it's just that the writing made by Campbell was so terrible
Oh I wouldn’t say Jason Aaron is anything better than the previous TMNT writer. When you look at Aaron’s track record at marvel, then you might want to start hoping for a short run.
campbell is the ken panders of tmnt comics i swear
I was just about to comment that 😂
@@Lawnrail its true
@@thefunnychiptuneman I know
He’s probably gonna report this video , he sounds like the type of person who can’t handle criticism
@@Lawnrail i hope not but i saved the video just in case cuz i hate it when creators like them flag a video that "critizes there art" for no good reason
And what's this stupid shit about TMNT constantly wearing clothes now? There is literally no reason to blend in now since everyone is a mutant. I also cannot stand all these extra mutant turtles now. It makes the TMNT far less unique and pretty much goes against what Peter and Kevin originally intended.
....Are you the same Courtland Brugger who went by the username Ninja-Turtles on DeviantArt and did a bunch of fanart from the early 2000's to late 2010's? If you are, I followed your work back then!
Would you like other mutant animals or just have TMNT remain the only turtles on the block?
Sophie Campbell is just an unsuitable writer for TMNT. Sophie tends to write slice of life material that revolves around cotton candy and ice cream. She's better off writing for Jem and the Holograms and maybe current She-Ra but TMNT?
Absolutely fucking not.
Efectivamente, llevas razon. El solo puede hacer cómics de temática emo lgtbi pero jamás (de nuevo) tmnt. Qué clase de enchufe debería tener en idw para que le dejasen hacer esa masacre con tmnt? Puta basura. Descansa al fin.
He not she
@@buster3041who’s He-ra?
The only thing Sophie/Ross was suited for was character design (LOVE his Alopex and Sally Pride redesigns. Santolouco made Alopex look like a werewolf instead of a fox, and Sally's a LION. Her build is supposed to be huge and jacked, like Ross drew her). When he started writing as well as doing art, you'll notice the turtles took on the mannerisms of low-confidence GIRLS instead of the boisterous, high testosterone males they are. Especially Michelangelo and post-Kitsune Leonardo.: Looking down with the hand on the back of the neck, or doing that stereotype "insecure girl pose" of looking down/away with one hand gripping the middle of the opposite arm...males simply don't DO that. Those poses radiate weakness and vulnerability IN WOMEN and it's not even instinctive for men to have that body language...unless they're men trying to pass as women.
@@creed8712 Technically a prior bearer of She-Ra's power, depending on the continuity, like how He-Man had many predecessors who shared his powers
Jason Aaron, I have mixed feelings over. He's the reason Frank Castle's The Punisher is no longer part of the Marvel Universe because his wife was resurrected by "The Hand" Ninja Clan and took all his money and divorced him which forced him to go to "Weird-World" (I can't make this shit up) It was the highest form of character assassination all because the wokie's hated that Cops were using his Logo. And also, very hypocritical. Because if Marvel didn't like the Punisher, they'd stop selling his merchandise.
The only good thing that came out of her run was the concept of muntant town and even then she screwed that up.
Thank you for suffering so that we don't have to. I heard that run after 100 were bad, but I didn't think it was that bad. Evil truly cannot create, only destroy
Now i see why Razorfist was so adamant about avoiding this run of TMNT comics😮
After finding out the story about the person who made jenneka a turtle I immediately dropped off of TMNT. And it's a good thing I did, that story would have pissed me off. Playing into what he wanted. May jump back in with the relaunch. But the moment anyone starts in their self inserts or agenda I'm out again
You know when I heard Razorfist go off about how only the first 100 issues of IDW's TMNT are worth reading and everything after that was just mary-sue trash, I never realized the extent of how bad it was, even when he went off during his Red Dead Revolver stream about the battle of the bands/lesbian mutant pig plot were utter garbage, I STILL didn't fully comprehend.
That's how bad it was when you thought that even Razorfist was being overdramatic.
I dont mind the mutant town. I think it would be cool to have the turtles live in a city of monsters like them. It could be like hellboy. The clothes and them planting of flowers or the shipping also dont bother me because the turtles have always been absurdist. I think these subjects could have been handled better if the writer didnt put his political views on the story.
Some months back I was wanting to run a TMNT rpg and loved the idea of using mutant town. I started reading up on it and i couldn’t make it through it. Watching your video makes me glad i didn’t waste more time on it.
You could always do your own spin on it! It doesn't have to be as bad as Campbell's version.
@@Tatoruzu definitely plan to do that. I was just looking for an excuse to explain mutant characters and back ups if there is a death. Learned about mutant town and figured I’d look into that first for mining ideas.
I love a happy ending!
Same
This series was GOATED man! Until Sophie Campbell came around. Things just ain't the same no more.
Idw loves to use their comics a platform for their politics even with the strict guidelines Sega placed they found a way to fuck up Sonic comics.
😂 Now everything make so much sense. As i started reading it from issue 127 onwards 😅. Hopefully Jason Aaron's run will do them turtles and us fans more justice
Just do what I do and stick to reading about Karan/the Foot Clan
I blame Ross much less than I blame IDW. Anyone who thought he'd be anything less than a trash fanfic writer is foolish. And that it was after such a long term run with son many plot points being juggled... who thought ross would be up to this??
He was pretty hyped up once upon a time and the skeletons in his closet weren't well known, so the fans are probably partly to blame for all of that.
@Tatoruzu buy as a writer? I think campbells art at its best is pretty excellent, but that doesn't translate to making him writer of such a well recieved series
@@prehistoricturtlesaurus5309 Yeah, there really is no excuse for that. I guess being both an artist and a writer has advantages (and it's cheaper for IDW), but they should've cut his writing stint short after realizing he wasn't cut out for it.
@Tatoruzu I can see that to a degree, being covid tines and whatnot. But yeah, holy shit did they lose a lot of readers. Honestly I wish I'd stopped buying, but I'm a diehard... joke was on me. If the relaunch sucks I'm quitting. There's too many fun tmnt comics from the past to waste time on more furry fan fiction.
It's funny how progressive writers say, "We support queer people!" But when they write "gay" characters, it's always a lesbian this, lesbian that. Barely any gay dudes. Even if they write a gay dude, they make them way too stereotypical or forgettable by being a blank/support character for the lesbian. Worst part, they even try to gaslighting, justify, and normalize the toxic/abusive relationships lesbian couples have.
Also, their general writing style is basically turning everything into a "Slice of life" just to slowly turn it into a political thing. They can't even properly write a Slice of Life story. Since they butcher by normalizing toxic and dirty environments as "good" and "ego friendly," Like... how does living like trash be good or eco-friendly?
They don't even want to write proper struggle neither, everything has to be perfect. And don't get me started with their self-insert/OC being put into popular media. And the extreme projections they have.
Thank you for explaining the issue with so call progressive writers and artists.
It feels more regressive if anything.
They aren't even usually lesbians, more often bi women.
Jennika is just ross campbell written into their furry fan fic
#150 Ending is really a dumpster fire. The turtles are even less likeable than before. I mean seriously? The others stopped trying to save Donnie and everyone went on vacation? Why cann't we have a scene like about Leo trying to find Donnie throught his astral skill, and April and Mikey also try to help Leo by combining their magic powers or something! Not even four brothers actually involved this story. Except for Evil Bob, this is actually about Mary Sue Venus saving everything. I'm really tired of that the writers always have the turtles forced into a vicious cycle of "quarrel, separation, and reunion" because the plot-first writing. The turtles actually have no real character development.
Just do what I do and stick to reading about Karan/the Foot Clan
P.S. have the turtles EVER had any development?? They’ve always just been Leader, Angry, Smart and Funny
I dropped IDW altogether after #116. My patience was pushed beyond what I was capable of. NOTHING they could do would ever win back the goodwill they'd lost with me. I don't care if Campbell is permanently booted off the book, I am never picking it back up again
Just do what I do and stick to reading about Karan/the Foot Clan
Campbell was never good and she ruined the IDW TMNT comic big time and made it her gay sjw fanfiction and i don't know what jason will do to it not sure if he will get rid and fix what cambell did like kill off jennika and that gay pig too
but sadly she ain't gone from IDW yet as she is making one upcoming TMNT comic called Mutant Nation
Same here
*he
@@isaiahedmonson5832 bruh
This writer was such trash. Everyone has to put in some angry chick, and make her gay. The sad thing was that there was another character named Lita who was much better. She was a younger mutant turtle with strange mystical powers. Instead of trying to force her to be an equal among four lifelong brothers, she was pretty much their new little sister they wanted to help and protect.
Seriously, the answer was right there.
Ross Campbell is trash.
i hope that campbell doesn't find out about this video cuz creators like them are always butthurt when they see videos like this save the video if you can so that way if it getts taken down its doesnt get removed forever
I mean he did call them a fucking “transformer” and “man in disguise” so that’s kinda on him. Even if the writing is shit, that’s a bit much and in bad faith.
It's not "bad faith" to call a spade a spade. I'm supposed to ignore the reality of XY chromosomes and willingly play along with a middle aged man's delusions?
@@Tatoruzu im with you on that
@@Tatoruzu did you just use a racial slur? You do know “call a spade a spade” has racist connotations nowadays right?
@@trashboat5388 No, I didn't know that. But now that I do know it, I'm going to use it way more often. Thanks
Now if only Zeb Wells run on The Amazing Spider-Man would end, amirite?
The editors are the reason why Spider-Man keeps being ruined.
I must admit that I am a big fan of Sophie Campbell art. Not a big fan of her stories, though. She should concentrate on drawing instead.
Yes the art is good but the writing goes all over the place, like her other series, 'Wet Moon' just ended anticlimactically. Really lame. With forcing a straight character to suddenly be lesbian.
After listening of second portion of the video I started to hope of meteor arrival.
Let's drink a glass of wine for the end of Sophie's run, gentlemen turtle fans🍷
🍷🍾Kampai!
Jason Aaron is also a big soy boy. Ross Campbell is a low bar, but still
Àgreed.
@@Misaori
Àgreed.🍷
🍷To the end of a miserable run.
Whoever decided to take a story about anthropomorphic ninja turtles raised by a giant rat and make it about gay issues should be BLACKLISTED from ever working on an IP that doesn't fit her niche worldview.
What a fruit loop sicko big sophie is
Tatoruzu cooking again🍷🗿
Ross Campbell's run is pretty much deviantart furry fanfiction
If you look back at his first comic and deviantart / livejournal stuff, you see that it always has been. (the TMNT allowed him to do furries but it was goth-queer-fetish stuff before that the whole time.)
So they hired Chris chan
Oh dam
At least he wasn't there for idws Sonic comics
Sonichu is the better yellow OC ngl
@@Zebra_fandomfella03ken penders is the yin to sophies wang... i mean yang
Not even close, dude
Mannnn this run had cute art but was sooooo boring. I couldn't read more than two issues at a time.
"who would hire Ross after he massacred such a massive, beloved series like this?"
Marvel. That's who. Or DC. They both will probably have a bidding war over the dude's garbage services. Trust me, in comics, these people fall upwards.
Im so glad im not the only one who hates the cute baby Turtles. So glad theyre going back to a gritty style.
I just hope someone finally do something with the First 5° turtle ever (Kirby) cause this character never apeared in any midia
idk I thought she had some neat concepts and I hope the new characters that were introduced get integrated into the mainline canon somehow like how Harley Quinn when she was introduced in the batman cartoon. They have probably the coolest character designs aside from the turtles themselves.
Which of the characters Sophie introduced do you like?
why would leo complain about someone being demuted, also i think lita is supposed to be an albino
Isn't Ninja Turtles about action? Where's the fight scenes?
Ross/Sophie Campbell should be blacklisted from all industries so he/she can never get a job writing anything
Agreed 😶😑
That's why I consider my hardcover IDW collection complete up to volume 13, which comprehends issues 1 to 100.
I really want to read this series, I hear such good things about it. However, this doesn't even seem like TMNT. What would you recommend?
Go ahead and give it a read and stop reading when you feel like it gets bad
@Tatoruzu many thanks, the general consensus i see is stop at issue 100 and skip ahead to issue 150. It seems like those 50 issues are basically filler
Any time I see "Sophie" as part of the creative team, I keep walking and ignore. Zero interest. Zero desire to support him.
Good
People should feel the same way about Jason Aaron tbh...
Loving the shinobi 3 OST in the beginning
I disagree with you on two things. Armageddon Game wasn’t good at all. It was way too long and nothing happened for the first 18 issues/tie ins. Krang died after an awesome build up that went nowhere. Very typical of Tom Waltz. Also the last 10 issues of idw tmnt volume sucked as well. There was only one storyline that I liked since 100. The punk frogs/dr Barlow story. I like Barlow, I thought the creepy story was nice and from what I’ve seen I think Campbell had someone help or ghost write the comics after awhile. Things kind of changed at some point and the writing didn’t feel the same. I’d have to go back and reread them to see when they changed but after the past 4 years it’s gonna be some time before I go back and reread this crap.
I haven't been following any TMNT comics. I've only known about the TV shows and movies. I've heard there are some good comic stories about TMNT. I've heard something going on with the recent IDW TMNT comics and wasn't sure what it was. Now I fully understand why.
Based af. You got a sub.
Ross is a terrible artist, not surprised to see he's an awful writer as well.
@Tatoruzu Have you read young blood and spawn since those were the biggest comics of 90s
Fuck I grew up in the same area 😅 yeah Rochester is pretty damn wild. It makes some interesting people...
Also can't help but wonder if Jennika was a self-insert, and therefore Jennika is trans. She already 'tranned' into a turtle from a human. He was a terrible writer, and I'm glad he's done. This permanetly makes Jennika a unlikeable character...forcing her in without any kind of classic name like 'Venus de Milo' was bad enough as it is. Why was Jennika okay but Venus wasn't?
EDIT: I don't know if any of this was mentioned in the video, I only had time to watch 5 minutes of it before going to work, so I added it to my 'Watch Later'.
Alopex bled into the 2012 cartoon cause of Sophie Campbell and they couldn't use ninjara
I remember fallowing Campbell on deviant art, and liked their art…. But once bro started getting published…. Eeeeh he went off the deep end
Man I wanted to read this comic for a some time, good thing I didnt it
Tbh i just ignored the whole lgpt writing i js focased on the main stories
Ross campbell aka sophie campbells secret of the ooze fan fiction is forever immortalized on pintrest
Another amazing video that I can agree with
Watching this video, I kept thinking of ALL the ways to do what Sophie is (not) TRYING to do, but with competancy. However, it doesn’t matter what I think, because to Sophie, her mission is to ruin the childhoods of other. Sophie is an example of an Anti-fan given control of something that she clearly doesn’t like. Her fan comic wasn’t made to respect TMNT and neither was making Jenna a turtle, it was made for HER to enjoy. To be blunt, if you feel the need to change TMNT so you can enjoy it more, perhaps consider you DON'T actually like the Turtles that much. Jenna is nothing more than her gender and sexuality, and the allegories are so blatant and poorly done, that it feels like a teenager whose parents "don't understand them" wrote it. Campbell is an ADULT and should act like one, not a highschool bully trying to ruin the fun for their favourite targets
9:26 nooo how will he shred now
It boggles my mind how can Jennika be a lesbo and still had a child with Dan
Also ross sophie secret of the ooze fan art was used to pitch to dark horse comics remake before idw got the reboot
Thank God this series is finally over. Just for the sake of it, I'll purchase #150 in celebration!😂
Erm... it's Coldsteel the HedgehEg, not Coldsteel the HedgehOg, get it right. But on a more serious note, I'm glad we're done with Ross's sad excuse of writing.
Tatoruzu keeps winning. A good treat for this dark horrid run of the comics, lmao
Are there any spoilers here for issue #150? Couldn't read it yet.
Nope, no 150 spoilers
@@Tatoruzu thx for the info
WOOOaaaw this is the best expose video of 2024 ... look at this... Ross was trying to cover up his mutation into Sophie lol, but thanks to Tatoruzu now we know true (I've come across with Ross Campbell reference but it never occurred me that it's the same person, always thought it is some family member or coincidence... damn such a good job you did thanks)
Someone finally said it!!😭
Ross basically tried to turn TMNT into JEM...which he also worked on.
She is not going to get any more work after this
Unfortunately I heard Campbell will still be working on TMNT, just not the main title... ☹️ hopefully it's false news.
@@FrankieD8283why just why she must retire
Definitely not on anything major and certainly not for any other publication
@@Tatoruzuat least list that good
@@just_some_geek Exactly
Remember when Sophie made a trans Oc in Jem and the Holograms?
1:06 meatcanyon's shtick
I think the mutant town arc would've been a nice break arc if it was shorter
*he
Seeing Ross say how he wanted to ruin our childhoods while writing for an iconic series aka biting the hand that feeds him and IDW is very unprofessional. If he doesn't want to treat us older TMNT fans respect and professionalism, then he doesn't deserve the respect of being referred to by his bullshit pronouns. Basically treat someone with respect and I'll respect your opinions, identity to a degree as any normal minded person would.
I like Sophie's aka ross art style but not their writting their writting in tmnt was not needed
I call at the bi clause.
It's the weird scummy lawyer speak to try to get around History of continuity showing a character not being gay.
All it is is a wedge because at the end of the day once they go bi, they'll stay the gay option because the gay option is the Diversity box.
And the only way they try to argue is either well. Nothing said they weren't bi Which is not an argument.
Are the worst one oh they have been in denial for all these years.
No. And pointing to the very very few cases in actual reality does not change that
Issue 29 through 32 he was probably going for the 2012 show look than like the leonardo mirror series
I will always be proud of being a man because I was raised to be a man.
Lol. `Gold Star´ for you. :D ;D
7:23 that was personal
I like her run, the IDW TMNT ongoing series has been my favorite comic book series, for over a decade, now.
This is so good lol
I'm actually out after this series ends. I don't want to give IDW another chance.
Didnt mind his run with them 2021. But his writing is terrible nowadays
I say idw's tmnt is not cringe and was never cringe
Guess I'm the only one who likes Jennika lol
There are plenty of people who do. I'm pretty much the only channel that has a negative view of Jennika, which is why so many people here agree with me - there is no other TMNT channel to vent this feeling.
@@Tatoruzuand I thank you for this
I love it Sophie did a great job on the whole series I would love to see more of mutant town and I still hope the new writers would let us see the future we saw in #117
Someone who actually worked in IDW quit working for them for a couple of reasons. The first is that they don't pay well at all, second, that all they have as writing is basically Google Fan Fiction and Trans Fantasies. That is how they messed up Transformers, and TMNTs. Now we have this person that delighted in ruining the comics of a franchise, but nothing is worse than one of the original creators allowing these stories to take place, back when he used to hate the 80s cartoon and even the atrocious live action series, the Next Mutation.
The only BS I find dumb on this video is the complain of "People of Color", which makes no damned sense to be complaining about. The fact of April being a "Bi-Racial" character stems from the different origins original creators of the TMNTs had for her. One would illustrate April as being half Native American or Black, and the other as a Redhead. That is well documented and people still talk stupid crap about it to this day. In any case, the TMNTs in IDW were reincarnations Japanese kids along their father Hamato Yoshi, so...
Also calling the writer a “transformer” and “man in disguise” is a bit out of pocket. But I’m guessing that when I Star getting the complete volumes that I should stop at 100 and skip the 50 after that then start on the new number 1 if that turn out good.
I agree the 'transformer' stuff was outta pocket as is posting a pic of the person pre-trans in the thumbnail. If anything that might be the main reason Campbell might try to have the video taken down.
I also disagree with complaining about the Turtles sulking for half a year after Splinter died. Dude, their father died. Their loving father that raised and fought alongside them for over 100 issues. They can't just ignore that and go back into action the following week. Grieving takes time. Especially since despite all their friends and whatnot, Splinter was their only Day One family. They don't have uncles, grandparents, cousins, not even godparents. Splinter was it.
I did stop reading til the Armageddon Game and the post 100 comic sales were so bad, one of my smaller comic shops stopped selling the main line, just the Street Fighter/Power Rangers crossovers. I'm glad that run is over, it bugs me that there people even thought this was the end of the entire run. Thank goodness there's a reboot, soft or otherwise.
@@VideoGameMasters09"I agree the 'transformer' stuff was outta pocket as is posting a pic of the person pre-trans in the thumbnail."
He responded to one of my comments where I criticized him for calling Campbelll a "transformer" in bad faith and he proceeded to state this cringe shit...
"It's not "bad faith" to call a spade a spade. I'm supposed to ignore the reality of XY chromosomes and willingly play along with a middle aged man's delusions?"